pescado rojo

Madre de Dios. I actually agree with you in part; about some parents. The flaw lies in schools and adults who think that someone who is not old enough to vote, drive, see certain movies, own real estate, get a pilot's license, or rent a place to live is old enough to decide their gender when they are confused. The answer is not to support the child without question. The answer is to give the child support while they muddle through on their own as much as possible. No child should be allowed irreversible gender surgery. No child should be allowed to decide this, and no adult should be allowed to decree it.

bggamers Loc: georgia

your living in a rosey world schools encourage kids to hide their disforia by telling them mommy and daddy wont love you anymore if they know. They also have been known to put kids they have problems with on antidepresants

American Vet

Big dog

Yeah, keep your California concepts in California.

pegw

Some children's parents just send their kids to school and never give a second thought as to what goes on there. They never even bother to see if their kids are doing their homework. I wonder why these idiot parents ever decided to have children in the first place.

WEBCO

Sorry, but the school employees that keep information from parents need to be fired and charged with child endangerment at the very least. Not surprised you feel this way though...it's the objective of the left to remove parents from THEIR children.

CounterRevolutionary

What you write is true.
But it is a matter of percentages; most families are engaged in their family's wellbeing. We have Child Protective Services for broken families- but we do not put an entire nation on welfare for those who fall through the cracks.

stephanie wilson Loc: West Chicago, IL

Do you have kids? #1. I do & I have a G-d given right to know what's going on w/ him at school! #2. I'm sick of leftists like you claiming otherwise. So stick that in your pipe & smoke it!

straightUp Loc: California

Oh, I get full reports on all those conspiracy theories. My bass player is addicted to them. Nice guy but when it comes to politics, he's an idiot. The fact is, the government doesn't control what people put in their bodies. Everything from birth control pills to herbicides is controlled by the private sector. I'm not going to argue about whether or not such products carry estrogen because I don't have the time to do the research (which for me means actually doing research, not just listening to more conspiracy theorists). But the fact that the government isn't responsible for people consuming these products should be obvious to anyone who isn't mentally retarded.

The ONLY thing the government does when it comes to the consumption of ANY products (and this includes the FDA and the USDA) is that it will ban certain items that have been deemed harmful and even then it's always in response to citizen demands for such regulation. But that would PREVENT the consumption of these products, not promote it. The EPA is also an agent of limitations, and has nothing to do with the consumption of the products you describe.


Baseless fantasy.


Actually, it's the conservatives that can't shut up about it. Every single time this becomes an issue, it's because conservatives are getting all upset about people thinking sexual identity is fluid. Liberals like me don't really care. If a man thinks he's a woman inside, WTF cares? It gets back to the freedom to be who you want to be. As a straight male, I'm quite happy with my wife and my personal choices. Why should I care if my neighbor is gay or identifies as the opposite sex? I guess liberals just aren't scared of "kooties" or whatever it is that conservatives are SOOO friken scared of all the time. But the moment you demand the government ban my neighbors lifestyle is the moment I'll get in your face to defend his right to be who he wants to be. And of course your reaction will be to accuse me of "making" him gay... So retarded.


So, what's the problem? As far as I know estrogen and testosterone are not mutually exclusive. Every human body has both. You just sound really confused.


Shut down the regulatory agencies and the private sector will feed you whatever they want. You will have zero control over what companies put in their products.

It blows my mind how so many conservatives can't figure that out.

straightUp Loc: California

Yes, most of them were pagan, from the Ancient Greeks to the North American Indians. They were the cultures of freedom that existed before Christians turned people into social slaves. The rule I follow with regard to your list is that people should be allowed to do what they want until it causes harm to others. So child sacrifice is out. But homosexuality or cross dressing isn't hurting anyone. I don't understand it personally, but I don't have to. My concern is freedom, not the personal choices of other people.


Nothing. It get's back to parenting. Personally, I think it's better to let children know about diversity instead of hiding it from them like conservative parents do because they're going to see it eventually anyway and if they spent their childhood being sheltered from it they will lose trust in their parents because hiding children from reality is dishonest.

My wife and I actually talked about this when the kids were young and we agreed that we would love our children unconditionally and that we would be honest with them. As it turns out, our son and daughter are both straight adults now. So I know for a fact that exposing children to diversity won't automatically make them "weird".

So my answer is to love your children unconditionally and be honest with them and stop asking the government to do your parenting for you.

straightUp Loc: California

So, you got a problem with the concept of personal freedom? Is that why you hate California so much because we value personal freedom? Or is it because we make more money and have the strongest economy in the nation. Or is it because we have more democracy than most red states do?

Red state Americans hate California for the same reason people in communist states hate America. They are jealous of our wealth, our power and our freedom.

Go 49ers! ;)

WEBCO

We aren't asking for the government "do parenting" for us, we are asking the government to STOP doing the parenting for us. I'm open and honest with my children and love them unconditionally. I don't want my 7 year old exposed to mentally disturbed people though. It's not the governments job to parent or keep information from parents. It's disturbing that so many people are OK with this.

Did you expose your minor (5-10) children to pornography? If not stop demanding that mine are.

straightUp Loc: California

Me too... My bet is that for many of them it was never planned. They just somehow got pregnant.

I once did a research paper on family values and I compared France to the US. In France family values have pushed the government to protect the right for parents to spend more time with their children. As a result, young parents get longer paternity leaves and families get more vacation time. In contrast, governments in the U.S. hesitate to interfere with business and so there is less provision for time off to spend with family and EVERY SINGLE advocacy for family values is 100% focused on what children are exposed to in the media. I assume that's because the profit margins that all working-class Americans are slaves to, forces parents to spend more time working thereby depending more on TV to babysit their children.

straightUp Loc: California

Yes.


So why not ask them? Is there a reason why you have to depend on schools to tell you? Are your children liars? Or do they just not trust you? (and why can't you spell God?)


If you can't handle the truth, log off.

straightUp Loc: California

Not when it comes to sexual dysphoria which is not itself an endangerment. But a lot of children with sexual dysphoria have bad parents who could and will hurt them. In these cases, it's the school that informs the parents that would be endangering the child.


See my last post where I mentioned the difference between France and the U.S. in terms of family values. I don't think either side of the culture war intends to remove parents from their children but that DOES appears to be the effect of conservative culture.